Word: courtships
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...beyond a limited acquaintance with two or three of them, so I created a mistress in my fancy, and called her Belinda. Up to the present time I have written seventy-six poems to this fair one, in which I have traced all the incidents of an imaginary courtship. The first describes our meeting; we did not know each other, and I was struck with Cupid's dart at the outset. It begins thus...